{"id":3968,"date":"2020-11-06T16:23:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T21:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=3968"},"modified":"2020-11-06T16:23:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T21:23:10","slug":"jeffrey-sprung-blog-post-for-11-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/11\/06\/jeffrey-sprung-blog-post-for-11-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Sprung Blog Post for 11\/9"},"content":{"rendered":"

The movie <\/span>Just Mercy<\/span><\/i> details the extremely emotional and inspirational real-life story of Walter McMillian\u2019s exoneration from Alabama\u2019s death row prison, Holman State Prison. <\/span>Just Mercy <\/span><\/i>stars the phenomenal actors Michael B. Jordan, who plays Bryan Stevenson, and Jamie Foxx, who plays Walter \u201cJohnny D.\u201d McMillian. Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx’s outstanding acting exposed the racist and corrupt criminal justice system in America and enhanced the movie\u2019s powerful message of hope. After watching the movie, I gained a tremendous amount of respect for Bryan Stevenson, Walter McMillian\u2019s lawyer and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative. Stevenson, a Harvard law school graduate, overcame many obstacles in order to ultimately free Walter McMillian, an African American man from Monroeville, Alabama who was wrongly sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the beginning of <\/span>Just Mercy<\/span><\/i>, Michael B. Jordan meets with an Alabama District Attorney in hopes of gaining more information surrounding the case of Walter McMillian. Michael B. Jordan opens up the meeting by asserting to the Alabama District Attorney that he has very serious doubts about the reliability of Walter McMillian\u2019s criminal record as he claims that McMillian\u2019s conviction was based on false testimony. The Alabama District Attorney refutes Michael B. Jordan\u2019s beliefs and claims that McMillian, \u201c…Caused a lot of pain for folks around here, and if you go digging in those wounds, you are going to make a lot of people very unhappy.\u201d Michael B. Jordan is unfazed and responds, \u201cWell it isn\u2019t my job to make people happy, it is to achieve justice for my client.\u201d Bryan Stevenson\u2019s relentless pursuit for the justice of Walter McMillian, which is depicted by Michael B. Jordan in this scene, ultimately leads to the miraculous release of Walter McMillian from death row at the conclusion of the movie. Bryan Stevenson should be recognized as a hero in the United States as he put himself at risk in order to combat the racist and corrupt criminal justice system in Alabama to exonerate Walter McMillian and so many other wrongfully convicted prisoners.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The movie Just Mercy details the extremely emotional and inspirational real-life story of Walter McMillian\u2019s exoneration from Alabama\u2019s death row prison, Holman State Prison. Just…<\/p>\n

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